1922
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TELEPHONOGRAM TO THE SUPREME TRIBUNAL
COMRADE ROZMIROVICH*
May 13, 1922

In response to your memorandum No. 96/sec. of May 8** I report the following:

I do not recall. Verification may perhaps be possible through 1) the newspapers of that time, 2) the Committee of the district or factory in question about which you are asking, 3) the agitators and propagandists who were active in Moscow at that time, since I almost always encountered some of them.

Lenin

9868
FROM A LETTER TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR OF ENLIGHTENMENT
May 17, 1922

I am receiving a series of reports that the high price of books, given our "enthusiasms" and exaggerations regarding the NEP, is depriving the people of useful books.

It seems to me necessary to establish some rule or enact a law of approximately the following kind: regarding local taxes, to establish certain sums which must be remitted to the center for the formation of a fund, on account of which several thousand copies (say, Skvortsov: *Electrification*, etc.) should be purchased for distribution to all district libraries.

I ask you to discuss this and report to me your conclusion.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*
Dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Printed from a typewritten copy.

** The Supreme Tribunal of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, in connection with the preparation of a judicial trial against the SRs, asked V. I. Lenin to report whether he had spoken on the day of the assassination attempt on him by the SR Kaplan on August 30, 1918, "at a rally at the Grain Exchange (Basmanny District)—before his speech at the rally at the former Mikhelson factory."

LENIN MISCELLANY
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LETTER TO I. V. STALIN*
May 19, 1922

Comrade Stalin,

Regarding today's memorandum from Bonch-Bruyevich, I believe that we cannot undertake the financing of the Radio Laboratory** from the gold reserve without specific assignments.

I therefore propose to instruct the Council of Labor and Defense to clarify the necessary expenditures so that the Radio Laboratory maximizes the acceleration of the development and production of loudspeaking telephones and receivers. Only for this should we, in my opinion, appropriate an extraordinarily determined sum of gold beyond the budget.

Lenin

NOTE TO N. A. SEMASHKO
May 21, 1922

Comrade Semashko!

One more request. I promised V. N. Rozanov to help the feldshyeress Greshneva, who cared for me for many days following the operation to extract the bullet.

Rozanov asks that she be given the next vacation this summer together with the orphan girl who is in her care.

Apparently, this "together" constitutes an exception to the rules, not permissible without your order?

Be so kind as to have your secretary prepare a report on this matter and write me a few words, or instruct someone to write, whether you can authorize this or not.

Your Lenin

RESOLUTION ON A MEMORANDUM
ON THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF VITICULTURE
AND WINE-MAKING
May 23, 1922

Direct this to the deputy who oversees the People's Commissariat of Agriculture and c o m m u n i c a t e   m y   r e s o l u t i o n   t o   m e .

Lenin

*
The letter was dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Printed from a typewritten copy.

** This concerns the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory.